The overhead view is of me in a maze

And you see what I'm hunting a few steps away

And I take a wrong turn and I'm on the wrong path

And the people all watching enjoy a good laugh

Embarrassed with failure, I try to reverse

The course that my tread had already traversed


So doing the trauma engulfing my dream

Invaded through what was an unguarded seam

The torrent of helplessness swept me away

To the cavern of shame and the hall of dismay

Inside me a voice was repeating this phrase:

"You've lost it, you'll never get out of this maze"



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Track duration: 08:14


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    General Comment:I'm pretty sure it's "subduing the trauma" not " so doing the trauma"
    Flag dalethewhaleon June 04, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This song is about playing the arcade game, Pac-Man.

    "The overhead view is of me in a maze
    And you see what I'm hunting a few steps away"

    Pac-Man is moving through the maze, and he's hunting power pellets.

    "And I take a wrong turn and I'm on the wrong path
    And the people all watching enjoy a good laugh"

    Uh oh! Pac-Man made a wrong turn and ran across some ghosts!

    "Embarrassed with failure, I try to reverse
    The course that my tread had already traversed"

    Pac-Man tries to escape the ghost by turning around and going the way he came.


    "So doing the trauma engulfing my dream
    Invaded through what was an unguarded seam"

    Pac-Man went through one of the those side exits, and came out the other side.

    "The torrent of helplessness swept me away
    To the cavern of shame and the hall of dismay"

    But the ghosts got him anyway.

    "Inside me a voice was repeating this phrase:
    "You've lost it, you'll never get out of this maze"

    No matter how many pellets he eats, Pac-Man only finds himself in another maze, after maze, after maze...
    Flag BeefSupremeon May 18, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:All about the confusion that sets in when you wonder if you are going down the right path in your life.
    Flag Elahrairahon March 03, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:sooo simple yet so profound - like most of their shit.. the instrumental at the end puts you in the maze hes talking about..
    Flag andcaitsaidon October 08, 2004   Link

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